WordPress News

Automattic wins $25,000 in case against DMCA takedown abuser

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Automattic has been awarded just over $25,000 in damages in a case against a DMCA takedown abuser, to cover legal fees and company costs from the case. As the TorrentFreak article notes, while this is largely a symbolic win, it's…

WordPress communities around the world

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

I love to see features of some of the global WordPress communities. Tom Zsomborgi highlights 17 countries on the Kinsta blog, with short interviews with folks from each country. It's by no mean's an exhaustive list of countries with vibrant…

An effort for automattic responsive images in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

The spec for responsive images is pretty settled, finally, and WordPress (rightfully so) hasn't really addressed the situation yet at a core level. Tim Evko and Mat Marquis -- both from the Responsive Images Community Group -- collaborated to create…

WordPress plugins landing page updated

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

The WordPress plugins landing page has been updated to show a card format similar to the WordPress admin install screen, as well as to represent some of the updated stats. It's still a work in progress I'm sure, but it…

Find WordPress themes for a business

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

Business

This is one of those articles that's just good to have for referencing friends, family, or under-budget leads to. Clay Teller gives a nice intro at WP Site Care to small business owners that need to get a website up…

Tips for managing WordPress on Digital Ocean

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

Devin Price always comes up with handy tips for tinkering developers. In this post, he puts together some nice tips for some common WordPress tasks you may encounter when managing a site on a Digital Ocean server. Most of the tasks…

Adii Pienaar is making a WordPress comeback with stake in Obox

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Adii Pienaar is making a WordPress comeback after over a year away from the community. The WooThemes co-founder has made a strategic investment into Obox, the team behind the newly launched Layers product. In return, he's received a 30% stake in the company to complement Receiptful, his new eCommerce product.

A case for the front-end editor

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Hosting

On WP Shout, Fred Meyer makes an impassioned case for the front-end editor, and why he believes it deserves a renewed effort as a WordPress feature plugin and eventual WordPress core inclusion. It's a really thoughtful post, and at well…

Tom McFarlin is transferring ownership of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Tom McFarlin created and has lead the development of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate for nearly four years now. I've used the boilerplate many times in my own work. The project has evolved and gained traction by the WordPress community and…

Considerations choosing a university CMS

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

I like this post by Chris Coyier because I think it asks good questions -- something that we may not always do. It's thinking like I was doing that gets companies into messy situations to begin with. Some TECH DUDE…

Dismal signup rates for EU VAT MOSS

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

OECD stands for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. According to Taxamo, the OECD released registration numbers for MOSS (Mini one-stop shop) -- a program that enables sellers of digital goods to comply with new VAT rules for businesses selling to consumers.…

The big business of fashion blogging

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

Business

This is a bit offbeat for me, but I found a story shared by Longreads this weekend that I really enjoyed. It's about how Amber Venz created rewardStyle, a (now) huge player in fashion affiliate marketing. In three years the…

New WordPress core stats signal better software update adoption across the board

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

Andrew Nacin updated the WordPress core stats this weekend, and the update signals that WordPress and its underlying technology has better update adoption rates than was previously thought. Thousands of new WordPress sites come online every day. Some others, though, stop pinging…

How the new Wired is wired

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

Wired has been around a long, long time. They just launched a major redesign and build of the website. Wired was already on WordPress, but they made major structural changes over the last couple of years and today's launch is…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

Theme design for developers

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Design

Yes! This is important. I get really worked up when I see basic concepts of design ignored by developers. I mean, I'm not a great designer by any means, but we can all learn a few things. Here are some…